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- Poetry (The New York Sun)
CREATIVE MINDS The Academy of American Poets hosts its fourth annual Poetry & the Creative Mind benefit gala. Celebrities including Meryl Streep, Wynton Marsalis, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Mike Wallace read their favorite poems by America's best-loved writers. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway at 65th Street, 212-721-6500, $35-$75...
- Modern day Samurais - Sofia Echo
Modern day SamuraisSofia Echo, Bulgaria - 13 minutes agoThey looked like a cross between the grim reaper and an American footballer. They engaged in tactics taken straight from Star Wars. ...
- Latest blog posts - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukLatest blog postsguardian.co.uk, UK - 39 minutes agoThe Williams comes from a sequence of Brueghel poems, and if you like the Icarus, it's worth reading the lot. Of course, where the overlap between poetry ...
- ‘Elegy’ is sensitive depiction of man’s last chance at love - Schenectady Gazette
‘Elegy’ is sensitive depiction of man’s last chance at loveSchenectady Gazette, NY - 5 hours agoAlong the way, we meet not only Clarkson, but Dennis Hopper, who plays David’s confidant; he is a poetry professor who has some dalliances of his own. ...
- Showdown in Gotham Town - New York Times
New York TimesShowdown in Gotham TownNew York Times, United States - 4 minutes agoPitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind ...
- Outspoken, widely famous South Asian poet - Chicago Tribune
The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. He was 77. The cause was kidney failure, said his son Shibli Faraz. Mr. Faraz was earlier reported to have died ...
- Community Calendar - July 19 (Akron Beacon Journal)
To have an event listed, send a fax to 330-996-3033 or an e-mail to newsroomemail@ thebeaconjournal.com at least a week in advance.
- Outsider looking beyond borders - The Age
The AgeOutsider looking beyond bordersThe Age, Australia - Aug 7, 2008Theatre might derive from Arabic poetry (Jidariyya) or the Bosnian East West Theatre company reinterpreting the British 1970s play, Class Enemy in modern ...
- Viewing all entries for: July 2008 - Economist.com
WHEN I was a young whippersnapper I went for an interview at the Bank of England, which was offering scholarships for further study in economics. After softening me up with a bit of algebra, my inquisitor asked me the simplest question: why do we ...
- Albee's at it again - Houston Chronicle
Albee's at it againHouston Chronicle, United States - 2 hours ago"I tried poetry when I was a kid," he recalled. "I tried novels in my teens. I was really bad at both. There wasn't much left, so at 28 I tried plays. ...
- Obituary: Elizabeth Bartlett (Guardian Unlimited)
Obituary: Compassionate and innovative poet of the fractured self
- 'King Lear': Elkin takes on royal role to open Shakespeare in Delaware Park (The Buffalo News)
Few dramatic undertakings are as daunting, as difficult, or -- if done well -- as thrilling as Shakespeare's “King Lear.â€
- Conference to commemorate Sohrab Sepehri - MehrNews.com
Conference to commemorate Sohrab SepehriMehrNews.com, Iran - 30 minutes agoHe studied at the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Tehran, where he was attracted to the modern art movement, both in his painting and his poetry. ...
- Attorney's rape case makes steamy fiction (Mansfield News Journal)
MANSFIELD -- Local attorney Marcus Wolf had plenty of time to reflect on his shattered life as he sat in a jail cell. Accused of rape, Wolf was looking at 25 years in prison. Everything -- his marriage, career, reputation -- was up in the air.
- Writer vows to get children reading - expressandstar.com
Writer vows to get children readingexpressandstar.com, UK - 12 hours agoMr Ahlberg, a Baggies fan, has most recently released Collected Poems, a collection of his favourite children’s poetry.
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